Love That Moves the Sun: Vittoria Colonna and Michelangelo Buonarroti

First Place, Chaucer Award for Early Historical Fiction

Finalist for INDIES Book of the Year

In 1534, Michelangelo is no longer safe in Florence. Pope Clement VII, his childhood friend, summons him to Rome not only to protect him from his enemies but also to demand he paint a masterpiece that will be the Medici Pope's legacy-the Last Judgment, a fresco for the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel.

At the same moment, fate brings the celebrated but reclusive poet Vittoria Colonna to Rome to petiti...